Nail magazine



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NAIL MAGAZINE June 2.1 1927.

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TOMOJI YAMAKISHLIOF BELLEVUE, wnsninotron.

NAIL MAGAZINE.

Application filed May 19, 1926; Seria1No. 110,267.

This inventionrelates to an improvement in nail sorting machinesin the use of which the nails delivered to the machines in bulk will be automatically disposed in longitudinalrows in even relation and capable of de livery as arow to any mechanism or implement in which the nails are to be used.

The invention comprises a hopper into which the nails are delivered promiscuously and from which they gravitate to any one of a plurality of underlying guiding elements by means of which the nails are brought to a vertical position for delivery to a nail support in which the nails'are finally held in an aligned longitudinal row; the members forming the support being separable at will to deliver the supported row of nails to an implement with which they are to be used.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of the improved nail sorting machine.

Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the guiding element.

Fig. 4'is a plan view showing the supports.

Fig. 5 is a broken view of the end plate for the supports showing the means to permit separation of the members of the support. 1

Fig. 6 is a sectional detail showilg the nails in supported position.

The improved nail sorting machine comprises a frame made up of a tray-like base 1 and a backing 2 transversely secured to the base by brackets 3 and braced therefrom by braces 4. At the upper end of the backing is provided with what may be termed a hopper comprising a tray-like member 5 of appropriate width and length, disposed at a downward inclination toward the end con nected with backing 2, the bottom 6 of the hopper being interrupted so that at the end next the back the bottom of the hopper is formed to provide a discharge opening The rod Sis pivotally supported between the side walls of the back 2 below the hopper, and on this rod is secured a plate 9 forming part of the support frame, a similar plate 10 being connected to the plate 9 by spaced Wires 11.

The wires 11 provide a means for supporting a guiding member immediately adjacent the back 2, which member comprises downwardly and inwardly inclined plates 12 the upper edges of which encircle wires 11 and the lower edges of Which overlie the nail supporting wires 13 and 14. The normal spacing of the wires 13 and 14 is such as to permit the discharge therebetween of the shank or body 15 of the nail while preventing" the movement of the nailhead 16 therethrough,

and the lower edges of the guide plates 12 are disposed substantially in contact with the upper edges of these supports 13 and 14. One of the supporting wires as 13 is fixed in the respective plates 9 and 10 while the 7 other of such wires as 14is mounted in slots 15 in the respective plates and held in normal spaced relation to the fixed wire by spring 16, secured to the frame plate and to the movable wire at each end. The slots 15 are so formed that at one limit under the pull of the springs 16 the movable wire 14 will be spaced from the fixed wire 13 to ac curately support the nails as indicated in Fig. 3, the separation of the wires through bodily movement of the wire 14, as by handle 17 on the wires 14 or by the projecting ends of the Wires 14, permitting the discharge of all nails carried in the particular row.

It is of course to be understood that the,

hopper 5 is of substantial width and that there are a number of nail supports and guiding elements disposed beneath the discharge opening 7 of the hopper, the guiding elements of plates 12 being so disposed relative to each other that all the nails falling through the discharge opening 7 must finter one or the other of the guiding memers.

Obviously the nails may be delivered promiscuously into the hopper and when falling through the discharge opening and on to the inclined plates 12 will be straightened and guided by said plates between the supporting rails 13 and 14. When it is desired to deliver a row of nails to an implement, as for example the nail magazine shown in my co-pending application No. 110,268, filed 7. May 19, 1926, the magazine may be arranged beneath the support and the movable wire 14 thereof moved laterally and all the nails of the support delivered into the magazine connected to the hammer for use therein.

Claim:

In a nail sorting machine a frame, a hopper secured at the u per end of the frame and inclined toward t e frame, the bottom of the hopper next the frame being interrupted to provide an outlet, a sorting frame arranged below the hopper and inclined op positely therefrom said sorting frame including end plates, Wires connecting said plates in frame forming relation, and a series of nail holding members carried by the plat-es each of such nail holding members including a fixed wlre arranged in the plates and a inovin predetermined spaced relation to the adjacent fixed Wire and is capable of being separated therefrom to the limit of the slots and against the tensions of the springs, and

neath the outlet of: the hopper and inclined downwardly toward the space between each pair'of Wires, the outlets between each pair ofguideplates registering with the space between each pair of Wires when the latter are in operative positions, whereby thenails delivered from the hopper will be directed into the space between each pair of Wires.

In testimony whereoi Ia'liix my signature.

TOMOJ I YAMAKE SHE. 

